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Reinventing Fire: An evening with Amory Lovins and Guests
Prosperity and Security without Oil & Nuclear
Arrive: 5:45pm / Start 6:15pm / Networking: 8:30pm / Close: 9:30pm
10th June 2013
Bank of America Merrill Lynch: King Edward Hall
2 King Edward Street
City of London
London
EC1A 1HQ
Event overview:
As atmospheric carbon passes the 400ppm barrier, it is a stark reminder of the outstanding leadership that will be required if we are to avoid extreme climate change.
There is no point in being depressed by this. Instead, we should draw inspiration from a small group of thinkers, companies and entrepreneurs who are already demonstrating how business is uniquely positioned to face up to this challenge.
On 10th June, Amory Lovins and his guests, Nandini Basuthakur and Andy Palmer will give you a framework and real examples of how business can lead in the absence of a strong policy framework. It will be a masterclass in long term thinking, and the new business models that link radical change with the profit motive.
Amory Lovins was rated by Time magazine as one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009. He has briefed 19 Heads of State and published 29 books, including his most recent "Reinventing Fire". He is currently travelling the globe explaining his vision of a world free of fossil fuels by 2050 without acts of government and led by the pursuit of profit.
Two areas where Amory expects the greatest disruption are transport and electricity and we're delighted to welcome as his guests two leaders from organisations that are thinking very differently, and showing that radical change is possible whilst creating financial value.
Andy Palmer, Executive Vice President Nissan Motor Co., has played an instrumental role in developing Nissan's Electric Vehicle programme. In 2009, The Economist magazine described the company's $4bn commitment to zero emission vehicles as "somewhere between very risky and certifiably mad". Since then every major car manufacturer has followed suit, and in the past couple of months there are signs that the Nissan Leaf is starting to put a dent in the auto market.
You can read the Green Mondays case study of how this decision was driven in large part by an awareness of climate change.�
Nandini Basuthakur is Managing Director for Opower. Opower was set up in 2007 to help customer save energy, and its extraordinary business model has given it a global reach into more than 15 million homes through partnerships with over 85 utilities. It has saved 2 TWhs hours of energy, enough to power a city of 500,000 people for a year, and removed $280m from their energy bills. Opower is in Forbes top 20 most promising US companies.
Following the plenary session there will be a series of specialist roundtables, allowing our crowd to dig-deeper into some of the themes introduced by Amory and his guests.
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